So... general plot of the story? I might even manage to restrain myself (for once) and make one character instead of like 5...

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Well it was just an idea to start the creative juices flowing. just tell me what you like and dont like and maybe add your own ideas in a short story and we can mix them up:

the basic premise of my 'pitch' is the RP takes place in this one city under seige from an invisible threat. *OMG ITS A SUTTLE TERRIST THEME* So the whole thing happens within the walls of the city, intrigue as we discover the nature of the blood plague and if walls can even stop it, civil unrest as people starve and mobs fight in the streets, the leaders fight themselves and the whole city is ablaze with fury.

But no one notices whats happening beyond the walls, because theres nothing there, no people, no animals, no wind or rain. Just ash, ash and blood.

Oh man, confining to within a city is le seriously going to restrict things. Whilst it will most likely promote more interaction, it cuts of other possibilites.

Although it seems it's there are many isolated cities?

It seems that there is a sci-fi theme to this being set in a fantasy mode. It seems like one of those instances where a natural apocalypse has managed to wipe out most things on the earth, and there are few communities still surviving, and then occasionally they send out small groups to scout the unknown or travel to other cities. Is that what it is?

okay summers coming, a week from now I'll be free from the dealines that have plagued me for 10 months, and I feel like writing, gonna give another go at wrtinging some of my own stuff and I feel like a collaboration too, more fun, more gain.

So shall we start brainstorming ideas?

I'm thinking we play it up a bit, a half modern half fantasy setting?

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Maybe consider setting a definite time limit for the RPG? I think after 2-3 months alot of people start getting bored and stop posting. This way there is a time frame for ending the RPG.

Depends how the chapter goes, if the setting is comepletely different its unlikely for the same characters to be there, but we could keep them on. So who knows! The later chapters will be dependent on how the story unfolds in the early ones so we can't really speculate on whats going to happen just yet.

Umn, I have one fairly developed setting that is not quite steampunk, but It should work quite ok for what you have asked.
In short, it is based somewhere in the middle of fourth, or even somewhere in fifth millennium. Around the year 2450, earth was invaded by far superior alien civilization that had somehow turned humans into mindless drones. The reign of unknown alien civilization lasted for at least a millennium, and earth has been teraformed to the point that nothing even remotely resembles the continental mass that had existed before aliens came. The alien reign ended with a fall of great meteorite that brought semi-sentient energy entities, that would be later called ‘spirits’. Nine clusters of spirits merged together to form fully intelligent entities and expunged the aliens.
Left on their own, it took a few generations before humans (and humanoids created by genetic experiments) shook of the thrall and started banding into primitive cultures. Of course, since most of alien tech was around the cultural development was much faster. Of course, they could only use some tech, and even that imperfectly, and had no way whatsoever to reproduce it, so they are forced to combine it with technology that is mostly clockwork and steampowered. Than also, sharing habitats with spirits, and eventual symbiosis with some of them, led to development of something we might call magic.
That is short of it. Since I’m writing a novel in that setting, I think I’ll keep the long version to myself, I’m sure you folks understand.